Fri, Sep 20
|Hungarian House of New York
Write It Again, Shakespeare! / írd Újra, Shakespeare!
A witty proposal to the spirit of playwright Shakespeare. to rewrite The Merchant of Venice. Szellemes javaslat a Shakespeare angol drámaírónak, hogy újraírja a "Velencei Kalmár"-t.
Time & Location
Sep 20, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:45 PM
Hungarian House of New York, 213 E 82nd St, New York, NY 10028, USA
About the event
With an introduction by the writer of the piece, Gábor Lackó (10min), the pre-recorded Hungarian mono-drama will be screened (70 min - English subtitles), and then followed by a short pre-recorded Q&A with the writer and its English translator, Mr. Gábor Gyukics. (15min)
(EN)
Shylock, the lender, gives a loan to Antonio, the Venetian merchant, stipulating in the contract: if he does not receive the loan on time, he will cut a pound of flesh from Antonio's body. Is Shakespeare's world-famous play, The Merchant of Venice, which has been performed around the world for centuries, anti-Semitic? Or is comedy merely suitable for amplifying existing prejudices? Could the playwright have known Jews at all, while they had already been expelled from England at that time 300 years ago?
The ghost of William Shakespeare appeared at Spinoza Theater in Budapest for this performance and the play's writer Gábor Lackó…